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Listed below are all assignments embedded in the course material, with links to the page on which the assignment is found. Visitors to the OpenFiction Project Courseware site are encouraged to post responses to these exercises on tOFP Craftbook Wiki.

Fictional Narrative Basics - Beginnings
1) Critical Reflection - Story Statement (Req.)
2) Writing Exercise - Story Generation (Req.)
3) Example & Explanation - Selected Story First Paragraph (Req.)
4) Writing Exercise - Beginning (pov, description, plot, or character) (Req.)
5) Example & Explanation - Selected Story Examples
(pov, description, plot, & character) (Req.)
6) Critical Reflection - Story Definition (Req.)

Fictional Narrative Basics - Plot
1) Writing Exercise - What If? How to develop and finish stories (Opt.)
2) Critical Reflection - Plot Structure Similarities (Req.)
3) Writing Exercise - Plot Modeling (Opt.)
4) Example & Explanation - Plot Summary (Req.)
5) Example & Explanation - Chronology Summary (Opt.)
6) Writing Exercise - Dramatic Questions (Opt.)

Fictional Narrative Basics - Character
1) Writing Exercise - What If? What do your characters want? (Opt.)
2) Critical Reflection - Character Evidence (Opt.)
3) Example & Explanation - Selected Story Evidence (Req.)
4) Writing Exercise - Character Exploration (Opt.)
5) Writing Exercise - Character Back Story (Opt.)
6) Writing Exercise - What If? Inner lives of characters (Opt.)

Fictional Narrative Basics - Point of View
1) Writing Exercise - Early Childhood Memory 1 & 2 (Opt.)
2) Example & Explanation - Selected Story Narration (Opt.)
3) Critical Reflection - Point of View Definition (Req.)
4) Example & Explanation - Selected Story Tense, Person & Perspective (Req.)
5) Writing Exercise - Psychic Distance (Opt.)
6) Writing Exercise - Point of View Shifting Exercises (Opt.)
7) Writing Exercise - Selected Story 1st to 3rd/3rd to 1st (Opt.)

Fictional Narrative Basics - Description
1) Writing Exercise - What If? Description Exercise (Opt.)
2) Example & Explanation - Descriptive Technique (Req.)
3) Critical Reflection - Description Definition (Req.)
4) Writing Exercise - What If? Ex. 58 "Good, clean prose" (Opt.)
5) Writing Exercise - Sensory Description (Opt.)
6) Critical Reflection - Out of Africa Breakdown (Opt.)
7) Writing Exercise - Description revision (Opt.)

Getting and Giving Help

1) Critical Reflection - Discussion Unit 1 Reflection (Req.)
2) Critical Reflection - Practice Critique (Req.)

Story Drafts Due
3) Story/Critical Reflection - Story 1/Drafting Reflection (Req.)

Managing Fictional Narrative Flow - Dialogue/Indirect Discourse
1) Example & Explanation - Selected Story Dialogue Passage (Opt.)
2) Example & Explanation - Selected Story Dialogue Breakdown (Req.)
3) Writing Exercise - What If? Ex. 39 "Telling Talk" (Opt.)

Managing Fictional Narrative Flow - Scene/Narrative Summary
1) Writing Exercise - What If? Ex. 60 "Problems of Time and Pace" (Opt.)
2) Example & Explanation - Selected Story Tense Moments (Req.)
3) Example & Explanation - Selected Story Scene Plot Summary (Opt.)

Managing Fictional Narrative Flow - Epiphany
1) Example & Explanation - Dramatic Questions in Climactic Moments (Opt.)
2) Writing Exercise - Show and Tell (Req.)

Managing Fictional Narrative Flow - Prose Style
1) Writing Exercise - Imitation (Req.)
2) Example & Explanation - Syntactical Units (Opt.)
3) Example & Explanation - A Style of Your Own (Opt.)

Workshop critiques.

Fiction and the Real World - Realism
1) Example & Explanation - Metafiction (Req.)

Fiction and the Real World - Research and Fiction

Fiction and the Real World - Critical Perspectives

Fiction and the Real World - Publication
1) Writing Exercise - Cover Letter (Req.)

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